Alison Blickle

Alison Blickle (b. 1980) is a Los Angeles-based painter whose work stages a sustained conversation between contemporary femininity, ancient myth, and the ritual imagination. Working across large narrative canvases, tondos, and occasional ceramic elements, she constructs worlds in which female archetypes re-emerge with new agency – reinterpreted rather than merely revived – and set against the pressures and pleasures of the present. Her paintings frequently portray women engaged in ceremonial or supernatural acts, drawing on figures such as the Fates, Medusa, Inanna, and Artemis to illuminate questions of power, autonomy, and social conditioning. What distinguishes Blickle’s practice is not simply the use of myth but the way she folds those stories back into contemporary life, creating cinematic tableaux that feel both timeless and unmistakably of now.